CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Media, Old Media

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Overcoming of natural barriers to facilitate the movement of people, goods, and culture -a. Telegraph: first form of communication without having to move, over a long distance. Technology is a repeatable social, cultural and material process -j sterne. Technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data -f. kittler. Media problematization: media are designed to solve a perceived problem. Lec 2-some key concepts and a little history. Technology is more than just physical products also social and cultural. Technology is a repeatable social, cultural and material process. Media are designed to solve a perceived problem. Especially when communication is based in john locke"s essay on human understanding on the scarcely generalizable assumption that communication means the rendering into speech of perceived ideas and consequently the linking of isolated individuals through bonds of language . Turns to information theory- shannon and weaver model. Mouth is transmitter, signal is sound waves, ear is receiver.